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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN F. sTEFr, oF BROOKLYN, N. Y., AssieNoa To JOHN-H. WALBETDGE, oF SAME FLAOE-ANDEDWAED F. HOFF, oF NEW YORK, N. Y.

INKSTAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 349,411, dated September 21I 1886.

Application filed July 27, 1886.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN l?. STEPP, a resiy dent of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and i State of New York, have invented an Inishowing it open. :1i same.

V1in section, of my improved inkstand, showing it closed. Fig. 2 is a similar View of the same, Fig. 3 is a top view of the Fig. 4 is a vertical section on the line c c, Fig. l. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of a modification of the same.

The object of this invention is to combine an inkstand or other vessel with a lid or cover and with a frame, all arranged so that on sliding theinkstand or vessel into a certain position the cover will be swung open, while on sliding it into another position the cover will be swung closed, all as hereinafter described. In the drawings the letter A'represents the vessel, which maybe used for holding ink or any other suitable substance. This vessel is, in Figs. l, 2, 3, and 4, shown to rest on asupporting-frame, B, to which, at a, the cover C is pivoted. The supporting-frame B rests on and is adapted to slide upon a main fixed frame, D. This fixed frame D has uprights Z), in which are upright slots d, and into these slots enter pins e, that project horizontally from the cover C of the vessel A. W'hen the vessel A is in the position shown in Fig. 1- that is, with the cover resting on it-the pins e of the cover will be in the lower part of the slots d; but when'the vessel, together with its frame B, is slid forward into the position shown in Fig.'2 the pins e will slide up in the Serial No. 209,211. (No model.)

slots cl and the cover G will be opened. The 4o frame B is by preference provided with a projecting handle, f, by which it can be pulled forward and pushed backward. Then pushed backward from the position shown in Fig. 2 to that shown in Fig. l, the cover will be shut down over the vessel.

The entire device makes a convenient inkstand, which the user, by pulling on the handle f, can draw toward himself and at the same time open, and it will'be shut whenever 5o he pushes it from him, the frame D being regarded as stationary for this purpose.

In order to prevent any lateral displacement of the sliding Vessel A, it may be guided between rails on the frame D; or a pin, g, may project downwardlyfrom the frame B th rough a slot, h, in the frame D, as in Figs. 1 and 2, to guide the sliding parts, and also to serve as a stop to limit their movement.

Although the sliding frame B is convenient, 6o it is not necessary, and in Fig. 5 I have shown the vessel A placed directly upon' the stationary frame D and having the cover C pivoted to it at a, the said cover having the pins c, that extend through the slots d of thcA frame D. In this case the handle f may be attached directly to the vessel A.

I claim- The combination of the sliding vessel A with a pivoted cover, O, stationary supporting 7o frame D, having slotteduprights d, `and with the horizontal pins e, that project from the cover C through the slots of said nprights, substantially as herein shown and described.

J N O. I. STEPI).

Vitnesses:

THORNLEY DioirsoN, HARRY M. TUEK.

Corregtion It is hereby eertied that the name of one of the assignees in' Letters Patent N o.

349,411, granted September 2l, 1886, upon the application of John P. Stepp, of

Brooklyn, N eWYork, for an improvement in Inkstands,7shou1d have been Written and printed Edward P. Huf instead of Edward P.v Hoff, and that the said Letters `Patent shouldbe read With this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the ease in the Patent Oee.

signed, Countersigned, and sealed this'eh day of october, A. D. 188e.

[SEAL] H. L. MULDROW,

- Acting Secetary of thelnteror. Gountersigned R. B. VANCE,

Acting C'onwnssz'onfn` of Patents. 

